Thoughts for the Time of War and Death (German: Zeitgemäßes über Krieg und Tod) is an essay written by Sigmund Freud in 1915, 6 months after the outbreak of World War I and took as its starting point for analysis the disillusionment that many people felt at the prospect of what was, even then, perceived as a particularly savage war amongst what were regarded to be highly civilized nations. Freud argued that that such a disillusionment: